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Steve Small

Steve is a director, workshop facilitator, teacher, mentor and producer who has been working with young people in Scotland for the last 20 years. Before embarking on a freelance career he was Associate Director for Scottish Youth Theatre, Head of Education at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Associate Director, Education & Community, at Dundee Rep. While at the Lyceum he established the Lyceum Education Department and founded the award winning Lyceum Youth Theatre, directing a number of productions that toured throughout Scotland.

Since leaving Dundee Rep in 2006 he has worked with a range of organisations all over Scotland including; The National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Aberdeen City Council, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Moray House School of Education and BBC Scotland.  He has also led theatre projects in Japan and Norway.

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Ruth Hollyman

Ruth is an Edinburgh based freelance drama workshop leader, director and writer who has been working with children and young people for 17 years.

 

After graduating in Drama and Theatre Arts from Birmingham University, she moved to Edinburgh in 1992 with her own small scale theatre company, which performed new plays and ran Theatre-in-Education projects.  She was also part of the opening team at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, in the marketing department, where she established the Education Programme for schools and community groups.  During time spent in Japan in the late 1990s she set up a children’s theatre company in Tokyo and worked in television and radio as a presenter of English language educational programmes.

 

During the last nine years, she has worked with Lyceum Youth Theatre, macRobert Arts Centre, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Scottish Youth Theatre, Perth Theatre, Stirling Youth Theatre, Borderline Youth Theatre, and Dundee Rep.  She has also done press and marketing for fringe companies and writes educational material for Oxford University Press.
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